diff --git a/docs/requirements/Component-Commons.md b/docs/requirements/Component-Commons.md
index 4f3967c..0662da9 100644
--- a/docs/requirements/Component-Commons.md
+++ b/docs/requirements/Component-Commons.md
@@ -65,12 +65,14 @@ Entity classes are organized by domain area:
 - **Shared Scripts**: `SharedScript`.
 - **Sites & Data Connections**: `Site`, `DataConnection`.
 - **External Systems & Database Connections**: `ExternalSystemDefinition`, `ExternalSystemMethod`, `DatabaseConnectionDefinition`.
-- **Notifications**: `NotificationList`, `NotificationRecipient`, `SmtpConfiguration`.
+- **Notifications**: `NotificationList` (carries a `Type` field — `NotificationType` enum — selecting the list's notification type and its type-specific targets), `NotificationRecipient`, `SmtpConfiguration`, `Notification` (the durable central-queue row — see below).
 - **Inbound API**: `ApiKey`, `ApiMethod`.
 - **Security**: `LdapGroupMapping`, `SiteScopeRule`.
 - **Deployment**: `DeploymentRecord`, `SystemArtifactDeploymentRecord`, `DeployedConfigSnapshot`.
 - **Audit**: `AuditLogEntry`.
 
+The **`Notification`** entity is the persistence-ignorant POCO for a row of the central `Notifications` table — the durable notification queue owned by the Notification Outbox. It is a plain class with properties for `NotificationId` (GUID, the idempotency key), `Type` (`NotificationType` enum discriminator), `ListName`, `Subject`, `Body`, `TypeData` (a JSON string — the type-agnostic extensibility hook), `Status` (`NotificationStatus` enum), `RetryCount`, `LastError`, `ResolvedTargets`, the provenance fields `SourceSiteId` / `SourceInstanceId` / `SourceScript`, and the UTC timestamps `SiteEnqueuedAt`, `CreatedAt`, `LastAttemptAt`, `NextAttemptAt`, `DeliveredAt`. As with every entity class it has no EF dependency; the Configuration Database component supplies the Fluent API mapping, value conversions, and indexes. The `Type` and `Status` enums (`NotificationType`: `Email`, `Teams`, …; `NotificationStatus`: `Pending`, `Retrying`, `Delivered`, `Parked`, `Discarded`) are defined under `Types/Enums/` per REQ-COM-1.
+
 ### REQ-COM-4: Per-Component Repository Interfaces
 
 Commons must define repository interfaces that consuming components use for data access. Each interface is tailored to the data needs of its consuming component:
@@ -80,7 +82,8 @@ Commons must define repository interfaces that consuming components use for data
 - `ISecurityRepository` — LDAP group mappings, site scoping rules.
 - `IInboundApiRepository` — API keys, API method definitions.
 - `IExternalSystemRepository` — External system definitions, method definitions, database connection definitions.
-- `INotificationRepository` — Notification lists, recipients, SMTP configuration.
+- `INotificationRepository` — Notification lists (including the `Type` field), recipients, SMTP configuration.
+- `INotificationOutboxRepository` — The `Notifications` table: insert-if-not-exists ingest on `NotificationId`, due-row polling (`Pending` rows and `Retrying` rows past `NextAttemptAt`), status transitions, KPI aggregate queries, and the daily purge of terminal rows.
 - `ISiteRepository` — Sites, data connections, and their site assignments.
 - `ICentralUiRepository` — Read-oriented queries spanning multiple domain areas for display purposes.
 
@@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ Commons must define the shared DTOs and message contracts used for inter-compone
 - **Debug View DTOs**: Subscribe/unsubscribe requests, one-shot snapshot request (`DebugSnapshotRequest`), initial snapshot, stream filter criteria.
 - **Script Execution DTOs**: Script call requests (with recursion depth), return values, error results.
 - **System-Wide Artifact DTOs**: Shared script packages, external system definitions, database connection definitions, notification list definitions.
+- **Notification DTOs**: `NotificationSubmit` — the site→central notification submission carrying `NotificationId` (GUID), `ListName`, `Subject`, `Body`, provenance (`SourceSiteId`, `SourceInstanceId`, `SourceScript`), and `SiteEnqueuedAt` — and `NotificationSubmitAck`, the central acknowledgement returned after the `Notifications` row is persisted (ack-after-persist), which the site Store-and-Forward Engine waits on before clearing the buffered message. Recipient resolution is *not* part of the contract — the site forwards only `(listName, subject, body)` and central resolves the list at delivery time. `Notify.Status` also round-trips a small status-query request and a status-record response (status, retry count, last error, key timestamps) once a notification has been forwarded. These contracts are `record` types subject to the additive-only evolution rules in REQ-COM-5a — relevant because a notification submission can cross the site→central version skew boundary; future per-type fields are carried by adding optional fields (or via the `Notifications` table's `TypeData` JSON hook) rather than by changing existing ones.
 
 All message types must be `record` types or immutable classes suitable for use as Akka.NET messages (though Commons itself must not depend on Akka.NET).
 
@@ -144,7 +148,8 @@ ScadaLink.Commons/
 │   ├── Enums/                      # InstanceState, DeploymentStatus, AlarmState,
 │   │                               #   AlarmLevel, AlarmTriggerType, ConnectionHealth,
 │   │                               #   DataType, StoreAndForwardCategory,
-│   │                               #   StoreAndForwardMessageStatus
+│   │                               #   StoreAndForwardMessageStatus,
+│   │                               #   NotificationType, NotificationStatus
 │   ├── DataConnections/            # OPC UA endpoint config value objects + enums
 │   ├── Flattening/                 # FlattenedConfiguration, ConfigurationDiff,
 │   │                               #   DeploymentPackage, ValidationResult
@@ -158,6 +163,7 @@ ScadaLink.Commons/
 │   │   ├── IInboundApiRepository.cs
 │   │   ├── IExternalSystemRepository.cs
 │   │   ├── INotificationRepository.cs
+│   │   ├── INotificationOutboxRepository.cs
 │   │   ├── ISiteRepository.cs
 │   │   └── ICentralUiRepository.cs
 │   └── Services/                   # REQ-COM-4a: Cross-cutting service interfaces
@@ -174,7 +180,8 @@ ScadaLink.Commons/
 │   ├── Sites/                      # Site, DataConnection
 │   ├── ExternalSystems/            # ExternalSystemDefinition, ExternalSystemMethod,
 │   │                               #   DatabaseConnectionDefinition
-│   ├── Notifications/              # NotificationList, NotificationRecipient, SmtpConfiguration
+│   ├── Notifications/              # NotificationList, NotificationRecipient, SmtpConfiguration,
+│   │                               #   Notification (central Notifications-table row)
 │   ├── InboundApi/                 # ApiKey, ApiMethod
 │   ├── Security/                   # LdapGroupMapping, SiteScopeRule
 │   ├── Deployment/                 # DeploymentRecord, SystemArtifactDeploymentRecord,
@@ -193,6 +200,7 @@ ScadaLink.Commons/
 │   ├── DataConnection/             # data-connection subscribe/write/health messages
 │   ├── Instance/                   # attribute get/set request/command messages
 │   ├── Integration/                # external-integration call request/response
+│   ├── Notification/               # NotificationSubmit + ack, Notify.Status query/response
 │   ├── InboundApi/                 # Route.To() request messages
 │   ├── RemoteQuery/                # event-log and parked-message query messages
 │   └── Management/                 # HTTP/ClusterClient management commands + registry
diff --git a/docs/requirements/Component-ConfigurationDatabase.md b/docs/requirements/Component-ConfigurationDatabase.md
index 5bcb3a4..c08bf54 100644
--- a/docs/requirements/Component-ConfigurationDatabase.md
+++ b/docs/requirements/Component-ConfigurationDatabase.md
@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ The configuration database stores all central system data, organized by domain a
 - **Database Connection Definitions**: Named database connections (name, connection details, retry settings).
 
 ### Notifications
-- **Notification Lists**: List definitions (name).
+- **Notification Lists**: List definitions (name, `Type` discriminator — `Email` / `Teams` / … — selecting the list's notification type and type-specific targets).
 - **Notification Recipients**: Recipients per list (name, email address).
 - **SMTP Configuration**: Email server settings.
+- **Notifications**: The durable central notification queue owned by the Notification Outbox — one row per notification, the single source of audit truth. The schema is **type-agnostic** so it records any notification type the system supports (email today, Microsoft Teams and others later): a `Type` discriminator selects the type, and a `TypeData` JSON column (`nvarchar(max)`) carries any future per-type fields without a schema change. Columns: `NotificationId` (GUID, primary key — generated at the site, used as the idempotency key), `Type`, `ListName`, `Subject`, `Body`, `TypeData`, `Status`, `RetryCount`, `LastError`, `ResolvedTargets`, `SourceSiteId`, `SourceInstanceId`, `SourceScript`, `SiteEnqueuedAt`, `CreatedAt`, `LastAttemptAt`, `NextAttemptAt`, `DeliveredAt`. `Status` is a `NotificationStatus` enum stored with values `Pending`, `Retrying`, `Delivered`, `Parked`, `Discarded` (the site-local `Forwarding` state is never persisted centrally). Indexed on `Status` and `NextAttemptAt` for efficient dispatcher polling of due rows, and on `SourceSiteId` and `CreatedAt` for KPI computation and the Central UI query page. Terminal rows (`Delivered`, `Parked`, `Discarded`) are removed by a daily purge job after a configurable retention window (default 365 days); non-terminal rows are never purged. See Component-NotificationOutbox.md for the full lifecycle.
 
 ### Inbound API
 - **API Keys**: Key definitions (name/label, key value, enabled flag).
@@ -94,7 +95,8 @@ Repository interfaces are defined in **Commons** alongside the POCO entity class
 | `ISecurityRepository` | Security & Auth | LDAP group mappings, site scoping rules |
 | `IInboundApiRepository` | Inbound API | API keys, API method definitions |
 | `IExternalSystemRepository` | External System Gateway | External system definitions, method definitions, database connection definitions |
-| `INotificationRepository` | Notification Service | Notification lists, recipients, SMTP configuration |
+| `INotificationRepository` | Notification Service | Notification lists (including the `Type` field), recipients, SMTP configuration |
+| `INotificationOutboxRepository` | Notification Outbox | The `Notifications` table — insert-if-not-exists ingest, due-row polling, status transitions, KPI aggregate queries, and daily purge of terminal rows |
 | `IHealthMonitoringRepository` | Health Monitoring | (Minimal — health data is in-memory; repository needed only if connectivity history is persisted in the future) |
 | `ICentralUiRepository` | Central UI | Read-oriented queries spanning multiple domain areas for display purposes |
 
@@ -226,6 +228,7 @@ Results are returned in reverse chronological order (most recent first) with pag
 
 - Schema changes are managed via EF Core Migrations (`dotnet ef migrations add`, `dotnet ef migrations script`).
 - Each migration is a versioned, incremental schema change.
+- New tables are introduced as their own migration — for example, the `Notifications` table for the Notification Outbox ships as a dedicated EF Core migration that creates the table, its `Type`/`Status` value conversions, and its dispatcher and KPI indexes.
 
 ### Development Environment
 - Migrations are **auto-applied** at application startup using `dbContext.Database.MigrateAsync()`.
@@ -265,6 +268,14 @@ The Configuration Database supports seeding initial data required for the system
 
 ---
 
+## Scheduled Maintenance
+
+### Notifications Table Purge
+
+The `Notifications` table grows one row per notification and is never trimmed by normal operation — `Discarded` rows are deliberately retained for audit. To bound table growth while preserving a strong audit trail, a **daily purge job** deletes terminal rows (`Delivered`, `Parked`, `Discarded`) whose `CreatedAt` is older than a configurable retention window (default 365 days). Non-terminal rows (`Pending`, `Retrying`) are never purged. The purge is a bulk `DELETE` against `INotificationOutboxRepository`; it is owned and scheduled by the Notification Outbox component (see Component-NotificationOutbox.md), which supplies the retention window from `NotificationOutboxOptions`. The Configuration Database component provides only the repository operation and the table.
+
+---
+
 ## Connection Management
 
 - Connection strings are provided via the Host's `DatabaseConfiguration` options (bound from `appsettings.json`).
@@ -289,6 +300,7 @@ The Configuration Database supports seeding initial data required for the system
 - **Inbound API**: Uses `IInboundApiRepository` for API keys and method definitions.
 - **External System Gateway**: Uses `IExternalSystemRepository` for external system and database connection definitions.
 - **Notification Service**: Uses `INotificationRepository` for notification lists and SMTP configuration.
+- **Notification Outbox**: Uses `INotificationOutboxRepository` for all access to the `Notifications` table — ingest, dispatch polling, status updates, KPI queries, and the daily purge of terminal rows.
 - **Central UI**: Uses `ICentralUiRepository` for read-oriented queries across domain areas, including audit log queries for the audit log viewer.
 - **All central components that modify state**: Call `IAuditService.LogAsync()` after successful operations to record audit entries within the same transaction.
 - **Host**: Provides database connection configuration. Registers DbContext, repository implementations, and `IAuditService` implementation in the DI container. Triggers auto-migration in development or validates schema version in production.